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| Can you guess who we are?! |
Kids and dressing up seem to go together, and everyone had fun on Wednesday showing their favorite character costumes or clothes. We learned about a few seasonal and woodland nocturnal creatures such as bats after reading, Amazing Bats, Flying Bats, Is That A Bat?, Where Are the Night Creatures. and Night Animals.
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| Costumes and drawings |
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| Do we know these kids?! |
It was also fun to play an online google game projected on the screen. I had one of the kids use the laptop arrows since video games are not my skill!
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| Expert player! |
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| Quick! Go left! |
We had a captivating visit with an author this week - David Hyde Costello. He led the kids in creating their own story beginning with just a squiggle line on the paper. Characters, problems, and a solution were all brain stormed as he illustrated each part.
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| David Hyde Costello author visit |
Speaking of books, we visited the Book Fair on Friday, down by the office. Some of the kids went home with 'Wish Lists' of books or items they liked. If you choose to send in money for one or more of their choices, they will be able to go back down to the fair to purchase the book next week.
In class the kids have been doing their own word hunting in books while reading. This week they shared a spelling pattern, word, or interesting information from books that they were reading independently.
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| Look what we found! |
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| Book sleuths! |
Topic 4 in math has introduced several strategies to use when adding or subtracting. Volunteers took turns solving the same equation while each employed a different strategy! This week we introduced the number line as another tool in solving equations.
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| Mathematicians! |
A science activity we did this week included sorting photos into light, sound, or light & sound. We discussed ways light or sound or both can be used to communicate information.
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| Great sorting! |
The Liberty Bell was the National symbol we leaned about this week in social studies. We learned when that infamous crack appeared (the first time it was rung!) and when the last ringing of the bell happened (in honor of George Washington's birthday in 1846). It was very exciting to read the true story of the time the Liberty Bell was hidden away under the floorboards of a church in 1777 to keep it safe from the British!
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| Exciting true story! |
Language arts centers this week focused on spelling for color words, reading a story about a wolf family on Starfall, sorting and spelling words in the pocket chart, identifying sight words in poetry, and listening to a CD story about Max the duck in Duck Soup.
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| Max the Duck has a whole series of books! |
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| Counting by 2s together |
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| Reading on Starfall |
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| Sorting pictures under sh.th, or ch |
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| Our poem had hand tracing turkeys too! |
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| Recess Tinker toy engineers! |
As a reminder, next week we have a no school/P.D. day on Tuesday. Also any extra shoebox donations will be appreciated for dioramas coming up. Thanks!
Have a nice weekend,
Mrs. Dagely
